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@Reneechop @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning It’s ok if you disagree with me. You can even call it ‘terrible hermeneutics’. But you won’t convince me you are right unless you can show how all the details in the text fit. Consider the following questio...

@Reneechop @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning It’s ok if you disagree with me. You can even call it ‘terrible hermeneutics’. But you won’t convince me you are right unless you can show how all the detai

@Reneechop Adam doesn’t name Eve here but simply observes from her creation that

@Reneechop Adam doesn’t name Eve here but simply observes from her creation that she is from him and therefore since he is ‘ish’ she is ‘isha’—ie man and woman in Hebrew shows us the source relationsh

@Reneechop Note that Paul also says that an entire church consisting of men and women can be deceived like Eve. Yes, men can be deceived too. What causes one to be deceived and another not to? Paul tells us the reason in 1Ti 2:13⎯ ”For it was Adam...

@Reneechop Note that Paul also says that an entire church consisting of men and women can be deceived like Eve. Yes, men can be deceived too. What causes one to be deceived and another not to? Paul

1Ti 2:13 question

@HeagneyBrian @StothersRyan I quote Jesus lots…just not in the context of church

@HeagneyBrian @StothersRyan I quote Jesus lots…just not in the context of church history I guess. What were you thinking of?

@Pastor_Gabe @jerryzz2 Eisegesis. There is nothing forbidding women from serving

@Pastor_Gabe @jerryzz2 Eisegesis. There is nothing forbidding women from serving as elders or overseers. https://t.co/VI2qbiI67E

@JoanBandy Any student sits quietly and listens. The context of this letter is that Timothy was asked to remain to stop false teaching. This particular false teacher was teaching things that put her outside the Christian faith. She needed to stop tea...

@JoanBandy Any student sits quietly and listens. The context of this letter is that Timothy was asked to remain to stop false teaching. This particular false teacher was teaching things that put her o

@LamoralOfEgmont @CoreyJMahler BTW, you are debating theology on X. Just wanted to note this given your prior comment. Jer 31:33 refers to both the house of Israel and the house of Judah showing it is referring to the ethnic descendants of Jacob. El...

@LamoralOfEgmont @CoreyJMahler BTW, you are debating theology on X. Just wanted to note this given your prior comment. Jer 31:33 refers to both the house of Israel and the house of Judah showing it i

Jer 31:33 commentary

@CoreyJMahler Give me just one instance where a leader, apostle, prophet, elder,

@CoreyJMahler Give me just one instance where a leader, apostle, prophet, elder, bishop, pastor, deacon or anyone other than Jesus is called a kephale in the context of the church. Just one verse. It

@CoreyJMahler A husband is the kephale (head) of his wife. Jesus is the kephale

@CoreyJMahler A husband is the kephale (head) of his wife. Jesus is the kephale (head) of the church. No one is in any context ever said to be a kephale in the context of the church. These are the

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-17

@MutamboHangford @Pastor_Gabe On the other hand, a text taken out of context can be a pretext for a proof text. Paul is clearly responding to a prior letter from the Corinthians (see 1Cor 7:1). He is quoting from it in other areas, so you need to co...

@MutamboHangford @Pastor_Gabe On the other hand, a text taken out of context can be a pretext for a proof text. Paul is clearly responding to a prior letter from the Corinthians (see 1Cor 7:1). He is

1Cor 7:1 commentary

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-17

And with a little bit of thought and careful examination of the text, one see Pa

And with a little bit of thought and careful examination of the text, one see Paul is not forbidding women from being elders. https://t.co/VI2qbiI67E

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-17

@harmon00000 “so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands,

@harmon00000 “so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children” (Tit 2:4) I guess they don't have to love their husbands? Does this command apply to wives? “

Jn 15:17 Tit 2:4 question

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-16

@ladies4pd The best assessment I have on this is by taking what Paul wrote in 1Ti 2:13-14 and apply this to a carefule review of the wording in Gen 2. In that case, we see animals were created, Adam was created, a garden was made to grow before Adam...

@ladies4pd The best assessment I have on this is by taking what Paul wrote in 1Ti 2:13-14 and apply this to a carefule review of the wording in Gen 2. In that case, we see animals were created, Adam

1Ti 2:13-14 general

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-14

@Pastor_Gabe @megbasham What’s wrong with women being included in leadership?

@BronWen727104 @lagracelaverite That’s right! μονογαμικός (monogamikos) is a modern Greek term that didn’t exist in NT times. Paul wasn’t describing a married person but one who promoted monogamy and if married was faithful to one wife. Kind of an i...

@BronWen727104 @lagracelaverite That’s right! μονογαμικός (monogamikos) is a modern Greek term that didn’t exist in NT times. Paul wasn’t describing a married person but one who promoted monogamy and

@MariusM38610501 @faboIus Apparently that had to do with refuting those who saw God being the head of Christ as them not being of the same nature. Chrysostem is refuting that idea. There are people who see kephale as meaning leader over or boss of o...

@MariusM38610501 @faboIus Apparently that had to do with refuting those who saw God being the head of Christ as them not being of the same nature. Chrysostem is refuting that idea. There are people w

@bolajiayo @instablog9ja What do you think head means in this context? The autho

@bolajiayo @instablog9ja What do you think head means in this context? The authority? The boss? https://t.co/L6ZiusB2LY

@ncksmith I don’t see women “mimicking the church” as if men aren’t also the bride of Christ—they are. Paul calls husbands to imitate Christ and wives to submit as they do to Christ, but this isn’t rigid role coding. Paul isn’t saying husbands don’t ...

@ncksmith I don’t see women “mimicking the church” as if men aren’t also the bride of Christ—they are. Paul calls husbands to imitate Christ and wives to submit as they do to Christ, but this isn’t ri

@ncksmith That’s great! We are all the bride—men too. And as the church submits

@ncksmith That’s great! We are all the bride—men too. And as the church submits to Christ (does what is best for him to their own cost and hurt), so Christ did first by example, submitting His life to

@ncksmith Complementarians almost all believe that males alone are to be elders, pastors and overseers. Some go further. Some claim that a female elder is apostasy or on the way. That’s where their understanding is severely flawed. And the thinking ...

@ncksmith Complementarians almost all believe that males alone are to be elders, pastors and overseers. Some go further. Some claim that a female elder is apostasy or on the way. That’s where their un

@ncksmith If you see a leader simply as one who demonstrates by example and not

@ncksmith If you see a leader simply as one who demonstrates by example and not as someone who is meant to be ‘obeyed’ then yes. I know a lot of complementarians. So long as Jesus is their example, t

@ncksmith In order to know how to apply this passage, we need to follow Paul’s a

@ncksmith In order to know how to apply this passage, we need to follow Paul’s argument through the whole chapter and even why he’s raising this in the first place.

@StothersRyan @faboIus Thanks for highlighting these. However, even in these contexts, head can be understood to mean first or prominent—not necessarily authority or rule—which is why words for rule or governance often have to be added when authorit...

@StothersRyan @faboIus Thanks for highlighting these. However, even in these contexts, head can be understood to mean first or prominent—not necessarily authority or rule—which is why words for rule

Jdg 11:11 debate

@faboIus As far as I can tell, the word ‘head’ didn’t start getting used for a l

@faboIus As far as I can tell, the word ‘head’ didn’t start getting used for a leader in church contexts until around 1000 AD when it was applied to the pope.

@megbasham It’s not progressive to continue allowing independent Baptist churche

@megbasham It’s not progressive to continue allowing independent Baptist churches to appoint female pastors based on no scriptural ban. Can’t speak to the rest of the disagreements, but keep the main

@DwightsWordOTD Is Charles Johnson inspired? Why do you think his claim is true? The great commission entailing teaching the nations to obey everything Jesus commanded His disciples is given to women too. The Bible is not written only for males. Wh...

@DwightsWordOTD Is Charles Johnson inspired? Why do you think his claim is true? The great commission entailing teaching the nations to obey everything Jesus commanded His disciples is given to women

@megbasham It’s too bad that this was the argument given. I would think that it

@megbasham It’s too bad that this was the argument given. I would think that it is because Baptists have the right to self-determination of how they govern their local churches, and there are good Bib

@JohnMar98888097 @smashbaals But you take it too far to say God commands the pastor be male. There is no command here, and in Koine Greek, the male form can be used in a generic way of both male and female depending on the context. To clarify, Paul w...

@JohnMar98888097 @smashbaals But you take it too far to say God commands the pastor be male. There is no command here, and in Koine Greek, the male form can be used in a generic way of both male and f

@MarqueStuddock @smashbaals But you changed the text. First, it says “a woman” not “women”. Second, the usual word for authority is not authentein. By taking a snippet out of context and even misrepresenting the details you can turn any text into a p...

@MarqueStuddock @smashbaals But you changed the text. First, it says “a woman” not “women”. Second, the usual word for authority is not authentein. By taking a snippet out of context and even misrepre

@MarqueStuddock @smashbaals And David killed Goliath as a boy using a stone. Man

@MarqueStuddock @smashbaals And David killed Goliath as a boy using a stone. Man tries to achieve through human strength what God says He achieves by His Spirit. A woman participating in battle is an

@MarqueStuddock @smashbaals I appreciate your concern for me and what you consid

@MarqueStuddock @smashbaals I appreciate your concern for me and what you consider a malady. I was once a complementarian until I started actually studying scripture instead of just listening to what

@Gates_of_Derry @colinsmo This statement is only in a single verse in a personal letter to Timothy with the purpose of stopping false teaching not the purpose of stopping anyone from teaching truth to anyone. Notice Paul shifts from the plural in v9...

@Gates_of_Derry @colinsmo This statement is only in a single verse in a personal letter to Timothy with the purpose of stopping false teaching not the purpose of stopping anyone from teaching truth to

@MarqueStuddock @smashbaals How do you know this exactly? Can you list each of t

@MarqueStuddock @smashbaals How do you know this exactly? Can you list each of the men called pastor or elder in the New Testament? What are their names and where were they called pastor/elder/oversee

@AndrewD82566840 @smashbaals Yes because no pastor is called the head of the church except Christ. The church doesn’t have many heads, only one. A head in scripture and in the contexts we are referring to doesn’t mean the authority over or boss of. I...

@AndrewD82566840 @smashbaals Yes because no pastor is called the head of the church except Christ. The church doesn’t have many heads, only one. A head in scripture and in the contexts we are referrin

@ScottC1517 @BronWen727104 @smashbaals Koine Greek often uses the male form as g

@ScottC1517 @BronWen727104 @smashbaals Koine Greek often uses the male form as generic. Are you not aware of this? Because of this, in order to be clear, it would have to say, “must not be a woman.”

@MarqueStuddock @smashbaals First, that men are physically stronger man mean they are more suited to plowing fields, but what does that have to do with teaching? Women cannot teach others? Second, the fall happened because Eve was deceived and Adam ...

@MarqueStuddock @smashbaals First, that men are physically stronger man mean they are more suited to plowing fields, but what does that have to do with teaching? Women cannot teach others? Second, th

@Gates_of_Derry @colinsmo Someone who advocates for plural marriages is clearly doing something that is not promoted in the New Testament. 1Ti 3:2 can’t mean that an overseer must be married (Paul was single) or male but it certainly means monogamous...

@Gates_of_Derry @colinsmo Someone who advocates for plural marriages is clearly doing something that is not promoted in the New Testament. 1Ti 3:2 can’t mean that an overseer must be married (Paul was

1Ti 3:2 debate

@smashbaals Many women agree that they should not be pastors or elders and would

@smashbaals Many women agree that they should not be pastors or elders and would vote for only men to be pastors. Many men like myself believe that women can be elders and pastors. Why do you think

@FNANVG @LionofJudah444 @oliverburdick What is so wrong with a mutually submissi

@FNANVG @LionofJudah444 @oliverburdick What is so wrong with a mutually submissive relationship? It works just fine. In fact, it seems most of the complementarians practice it even though they claim t

@cgore @smashbaals A verse taken out of context is a pretext for a proof text. First, the grammar is indicating that this is not about all women (as in the prior verse) but 'a woman'... and from v14, 'the woman' is an anaphoric reference showing it ...

@cgore @smashbaals A verse taken out of context is a pretext for a proof text. First, the grammar is indicating that this is not about all women (as in the prior verse) but 'a woman'... and from v14,

@smashbaals The SBC is not God nor the Bible. The Bible doesn’t have a problem w

@smashbaals The SBC is not God nor the Bible. The Bible doesn’t have a problem with godly women who are able to teach the truth from serving as pastors and teaching truth to anyone. The Bible has a p

@FNANVG @oliverburdick If a man is godly and doesn’t have to submit to anyone th

@FNANVG @oliverburdick If a man is godly and doesn’t have to submit to anyone then why is Eph 5:21 saying that we subject ourselves to one another out of a fear of Christ? Don’t men fear Christ?

Eph 5:21 debate

@biblemarriages @yallbenonsense @MikeWingerii No, the explicit statement is that

@biblemarriages @yallbenonsense @MikeWingerii No, the explicit statement is that her foolish vows can be annulled without her suffering the consequences which is a grace. This is not about having auth

@biblemarriages @yallbenonsense @MikeWingerii The Mosaic law was a covenant with the Jews. There are aspects that carry over and many that don’t. In this case, the grace given to women is not given to men. Men are missing something good—that a wise ...

@biblemarriages @yallbenonsense @MikeWingerii The Mosaic law was a covenant with the Jews. There are aspects that carry over and many that don’t. In this case, the grace given to women is not given t

@biblemarriages @yallbenonsense @MikeWingerii Like I said, a woman in this case

@biblemarriages @yallbenonsense @MikeWingerii Like I said, a woman in this case gets a special grace that if her foolish vow is heard and her father or husband annuls it then she is not bound and does

@truth_john_14_6 @smashbaals You are taking 1Ti 2:11-12 out of context. Paul’s purpose in writing his personal letter to Timothy was for Timothy to deal with the false teaching not the stopping of anyone teaching the truth to anyone. That conclusion ...

@truth_john_14_6 @smashbaals You are taking 1Ti 2:11-12 out of context. Paul’s purpose in writing his personal letter to Timothy was for Timothy to deal with the false teaching not the stopping of any

1Ti 2:11-12 commentary

@biblemarriages @yallbenonsense @MikeWingerii The law does not forbid women from

@biblemarriages @yallbenonsense @MikeWingerii The law does not forbid women from divorcing their husbands so what Jesus said was definitely not in contradiction to the law. So your conclusions are no

@truth_john_14_6 @smashbaals What matters is not what specific body that God gifts and enables to serve Him, but that this person is of godly character and has the ability to teach and teaches the truth. That one is male or female is itself not the p...

@truth_john_14_6 @smashbaals What matters is not what specific body that God gifts and enables to serve Him, but that this person is of godly character and has the ability to teach and teaches the tru

@biblemarriages @yallbenonsense @MikeWingerii Right. I should have made that one separate. Hannah initiates with God and makes a vow and later tells Elkanah her plan. He didn’t overhear her vow but she told him about it. So his involvement was only b...

@biblemarriages @yallbenonsense @MikeWingerii Right. I should have made that one separate. Hannah initiates with God and makes a vow and later tells Elkanah her plan. He didn’t overhear her vow but sh

@biblemarriages @yallbenonsense @MikeWingerii This is a good question. I'm not sure I have all the answers on this one, but here is my thinking. One reason may be because many wives were much younger (sometimes teenagers) when married to older men. ...

@biblemarriages @yallbenonsense @MikeWingerii This is a good question. I'm not sure I have all the answers on this one, but here is my thinking. One reason may be because many wives were much younger